Earth and Environmental Sciences Guide: Tropical Plant Sciences & Agriculture: Websites

Conducts research to develop and transfer solutions to agricultural problems

Provides an analytical tool of crop condition information from around the world

This Australian Government Department's role is to develop and implement policies and programs that ensure Australia's agricultural industries remain competitive, profitable and sustainable

Concerned with the viability of crops across the world

Collections of data and multimedia tools

This Australian Government Department develops and implements national policy, programs and legislation to protect and conserve Australia's environment

Technical information on the chemicals found in plants and their ethnobotanical uses

Australian partnership between the community, government and business to tackle land degradation

Conservation information on plants, animals and ecological communities

Time-lapse movies of plant growth, movement, and behavior in response to various stimuli

The Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR) includes the Australian National Herbarium. These are jointly managed by CSIRO and the Director of National Parks with strong links to the Australian National Botanic Gardens. The Herbarium, with over 1.2 million specimens, is responsible for the scientific integrity of the Gardens' plant labeling and manages the national plant name lists for Australia's botanical community.

Australian and New Zealand herbaria house over eight million plant, algae and fungi specimens. Herbarium specimens are an important resource for research on the Australasian flora and provide a permanent record of the occurrence of a species at a particular place and time. The AVH provides access to the collecting data associated with these specimens.

A classification of angiosperms that can be navigated either by phylogenic tree, Order, or Family. There are literature references and links to other related Web sites

The Australian Plant Census (APC) provides a list of currently accepted names for the Australian vascular flora, both native and introduced.

Virtual library of online floras offering resources from leading international institutions of botanical research

A curated, open-source, data resource for comparative genome analysis in the grasses

World database of fungal names at the species level and below

Offers an introduction to the family Leguminosae, a draft checklist of the legumes of the world, and online searching of the World Database of Legumes

Conservation status, taxonomy, and distribution of animals and plants, along with an evaluation of their risk of extinction

Florida Museum of Natural History provides this clearinghouse for information on this family of tropical plants

Standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories

Digitized historical collection of plant anatomical microscope slides that were made by W.T. Swingle, one of the twentieth century’s foremost authorities on citrus plants

The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists and nature enthusiasts from around the world. The project provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history (phylogeny)

Designed to manage and explore information on phylogenetic relationships. Allows retrieval and recombination of trees and data from different studies. Most material available deals with plants, but vertebrates, invertebrates, and fungi are also represented.